Sunday, December 29, 2013
Imperfect HOF ballot
?As a reminder, the current scoring system looks like this (which is based on the view of the Straight Arrow readers):
14 points for each of: Bonds, Maddux, Clemens
12: Fr Thomas
9: Piazza, Bagwell, Raines
7: Biggio, Glavine
That’s 95 for nine guys.
5: Trammell, Schilling, Mussina, Edgar, McGwire
Any of those guys gives you 100.
3: La Walker, Sosa, Kent
2: Palmeiro, McGriff
1: Mattingly, Morris, Alou, Lee Smith, Lu Gonzalez, Kenny Rogers
Voting for anyone else, or leaving a blank spot:
-1 for 1st
-3 for 2nd
-5 for 3rd
...
-19 for 10th
That’s a total of -100 if you hand in a blank ballot.
You would have a hard time handing in a ballot with less than 80 points. That's basically the passing grade, if you hand in a ballot with 80 points. If it's less than that, either you don't know what you are doing, or, you have such strong views against some players (i.e., PED-based), that this scoring system won't make any sense to you. In that case, come up with your own scoring system.
So, the worst ballot is whatever voter hands in a blank ballot (-100 points). Our old blogger-buddy Murray Chass comes in at 14 points for Maddux, 7 for Glavine, 12 for Frank Thomas and 1 for Jack Morris, for a total of 34. But leaving the six blank spots is -36, for a total score of -2 points.
Dan Shaunessy of the Boston Globe votes for the same 4 of Chass, plus Schilling. That's 39 points for the 5 guys, and -25 for leaving 5 open spots, for a total of 14 points.
Feel free to point out other voters whose views is not shared at all by the Straight Arrow readers.
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